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Skagway AK is having landslides next to pier


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8/7/2022  According to Cruisehive.com the dock at Skagway has been closed for the remainder of the 2022 season:

 Another rockslide adjacent to the popular White Pass Railroad Dock in Skagway, Alaska, has caused damage and led to the full closure of the dock, which is expected to remain closed for the rest of the 2022 sailing season.

This is the third rockslide in recent weeks, and officials are concerned about the possibility of more – and more severe – rockslides to come.

Some ships are still able to visit the charming community by utilizing other docks or arranging to tender passengers from an anchored position without using the at-risk dock.

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our original itinerary scheduled Ovation to dock there on 8/22, and the app still shows that to be planned

it appears that RCCL may still be using their scheduled pier, the RRA, which is south of the affected pier and not closed but from which passengers must be tendered to the small boat harbor so that they don't transit the closed pier

any confirmation from recent cruisers of the past 2 weeks?

on 8/11, this statement was made on a travel website: "Royal Caribbean said its Skagway itineraries will operate as scheduled. "

https://www.travelweekly.com/Cruise-Travel/Princess-tweaks-more-Alaska-cruises-Skagway-dock-closure

does anyone have definitive information on Ovation's status there?

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10 minutes ago, ihaoan said:

our original itinerary scheduled Ovation to dock there on 8/22, and the app still shows that to be planned

it appears that RCCL may still be using their scheduled pier, the RRA, which is south of the affected pier and not closed but from which passengers must be tendered to the small boat harbor so that they don't transit the closed pier

any confirmation from recent cruisers of the past 2 weeks?

on 8/11, this statement was made on a travel website: "Royal Caribbean said its Skagway itineraries will operate as scheduled. "

https://www.travelweekly.com/Cruise-Travel/Princess-tweaks-more-Alaska-cruises-Skagway-dock-closure

does anyone have definitive information on Ovation's status there?

Its a fair bet.  I am on Discovery Princess in September, most of their sailings are going elsewhere now, but mine was confirmed still staying in Skagway and using tenders.  Quantum was originally due in that day as well, but dropped the Skagway call.  It looks like one larger ship like those can go in to skagway at the southern pier and tendered.  

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